''Hygrocybe procera'' is a colourful ''
Hygrocybe
''Hygrocybe'' is a genus of agarics (gilled fungi) in the family Hygrophoraceae. Called waxcaps in English (sometimes waxy caps in North America), basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are often brightly coloured and have dry to waxy caps, white spores, an ...
'' (waxcap) fungus. First
described as ''Hygrophorus procerus'' by
Greta Stevenson
Greta Barbara Stevenson (10 June 1911 – 18 December 1990) was a New Zealand botanist and mycologist. She described many new species of Agaricales (gilled mushrooms).
Background and education
Stevenson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the ol ...
in 1963,
the species was transferred to ''Hygrocybe'' in 1971 by
Egon Horak.
It is only known with certainty from New Zealand.
Description
The
fruit bodies
The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. The fruitbody is part of the sexual phase of a fungal life cyc ...
of this fungus are red, orange or yellow with a
cap up to 5 cm in diameter, and a 15–70 x 3–6 mm cylindrical
stipe (stem) of uniform diameter, or tapering towards its base. It is seen between February and June in forests.
See also
*
List of ''Hygrocybe'' species
References
External links
*
procera
Procera is a hypothetical clade of amphibians that includes salamanders and caecilians but not frogs. A close relationship between salamanders and caecilians is a competing hypothesis to the more widely supported view that salamanders and frogs a ...
Fungi described in 1963
Fungi of New Zealand
Taxa named by Greta Stevenson
Fungus species
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